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deird_lj ([personal profile] deird_lj) wrote2009-10-17 09:06 pm
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Freaky Hairstyle and Fun Day

I currently look like I should be in a sixties tv show, where all the girls have hugely curly and exciting hair.

Seriously. Look at this:



Normally, my hair is thin, just past my shoulders, and DEAD STRAIGHT.

To achieve the effect you see above, I had to sleep with my hair in curlers, use a huge quantity of hairspray, spend the day dressed as a pirate, and then come home and comb it all out into the huge frizzy mess in the photo.


...oh, yeah, by the way - I spent the day dressed as a pirate.

In fact, I spent the day looking like this:




(Note the hoop earrings, the bare feet, the tight curls, and the SWORD.)


The reason for this madness… and the reason why I went to the supermarket dressed like that and carrying a sword… and the reason why, last night, I had to race down to my parents' house and frantically hide everything before my brother-in-law got there…

…was a surprise party. For the brother-in-law. A pirate themed surprise party.


Here, by the way, is Caleb, looking oh-so-cute-and-piratical:




We had costumes, and piratey games, and chocolate covered coins, and people saying "ARRR" with gusto. 'Twas fun.


…and now my hair looks insane.


Were I an ordinary person, I would possibly be shrieking, hiding my head under a paper bag, and running off to shampoo it back into a manageable state.
Because I am not a sensible person who thinks about how insanely complicated it would be to wrestle with these curls on a daily basis, I am instead trying to talk myself into getting a perm so that I can look this weird every day.

(Don't worry. I'll probably talk myself out of it again before I manage to get to the hairdresser.)

[identity profile] petzipellepingo.livejournal.com 2009-10-17 10:43 am (UTC)(link)
Nah, this is Sixties hair. Trust me, I was there.

And arrr! to you and yours.
deird1: Fred looking pretty and thoughful (Default)

[personal profile] deird1 2009-10-17 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
*boggles at the photo*

ARRRR! *waves sword*

[identity profile] louise39.livejournal.com 2009-10-17 01:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Your hair is gorgeous - so full and plentiful.

Caleb is adorable. He trying to look like a min-pirate. Hardy har!

deird1: Fred looking pretty and thoughful (Default)

[personal profile] deird1 2009-10-17 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't I have cute nephews!

So weird having my hair like this - you have no idea. I'm used to the straightness.

[identity profile] spuffyduds.livejournal.com 2009-10-17 01:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, you are so cute!
deird1: Fred looking pretty and thoughful (Default)

[personal profile] deird1 2009-10-17 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
*grins*
snickfic: Buffy looking over her shoulder (Default)

[personal profile] snickfic 2009-10-17 01:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Pictures!

Your 60's hair looks suspiciously like... my hair. Every day.

I confess, there's always this bizare mental shift when I finally see a picture of someone whom I've read/corresponded with for a while. Like, "Oh, now they're a person."

[identity profile] penny-lane-42.livejournal.com 2009-10-17 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I confess, there's always this bizare mental shift when I finally see a picture of someone whom I've read/corresponded with for a while. Like, "Oh, now they're a person."

Isn't it weird? And then you have to stop picturing them looking like their default icon. Or is that just me?
snickfic: Buffy looking over her shoulder (Default)

[personal profile] snickfic 2009-10-17 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Or is that just me?

Definitely not you. Sometimes I construct an entire visual image based just on a username.

And now that you read my other blog you know I don't look like Dru. :)
deird1: Fred looking pretty and thoughful (Default)

[personal profile] deird1 2009-10-17 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
And now that you read my other blog you know I don't look like Dru. :)

Yeah, that was freaky...
snickfic: Buffy looking over her shoulder (Default)

[personal profile] snickfic 2009-10-17 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
The fact that I don't look like Dru? Or the fact that you subconsciously thought I did? *g*
deird1: Fred looking pretty and thoughful (Default)

[personal profile] deird1 2009-10-17 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
The mental shift of not thinking of you as looking like Dru at exactly the same time as realising that I'd thought you did...
deird1: Fred looking pretty and thoughful (writer's strike)

[personal profile] deird1 2009-10-17 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Actually, the reason for my default icon is that, during the period when I first started getting lots of fandomy people hanging around, my icon was always this. *points up*

And when the writers' strike ended and I announced that I was finally going to start using other icons instead, my entire flist went on strike and demanded that I keep it, because they all thought of me as a little yellow person.

Hence my default icon.
deird1: Fred looking pretty and thoughful (Default)

[personal profile] deird1 2009-10-17 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I confess, there's always this bizare mental shift when I finally see a picture of someone whom I've read/corresponded with for a while. Like, "Oh, now they're a person."

There are actually many, many pictures of me on here. You just have to go back a bit...
snickfic: Buffy looking over her shoulder (Default)

[personal profile] snickfic 2009-10-17 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
They must have been before I was paying attention. Now I'll need to go find one with the default straight hair.
deird1: Fred looking pretty and thoughful (Default)

[personal profile] deird1 2009-10-17 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Here, here, and here, for starters...
snickfic: Buffy looking over her shoulder (Default)

[personal profile] snickfic 2009-10-17 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooh, I really like the pictures of the play. And now I can see how the curls would feel a little bizarre.
ext_30166: Sierra looking holy shit amazing (Default)

[identity profile] lavastar.livejournal.com 2009-10-17 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I know exaaaaactly what you mean. Like, [livejournal.com profile] stormwreath is a lightning bolt. [livejournal.com profile] deird1 is a smiley face. Etc.

I suppose one could make some sort of long conclusion about what that means and how talking to people on the Internet is different - or one could, you know, not.
deird1: Fred looking pretty and thoughful (Default)

[personal profile] deird1 2009-10-17 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
YOU'RE ALIVE!

*was starting to worry*
ext_30166: Sierra looking holy shit amazing (Default)

[identity profile] lavastar.livejournal.com 2009-10-17 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Haha, I didn't think anyone was going to notice! You're sweet.

My power went out yesterday. It was VERY SAD.

...technically for only an hour, but then I was too sleepy to do anything but read in bed. I'm an old lady that way.
deird1: Fred looking pretty and thoughful (Default)

[personal profile] deird1 2009-10-17 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
*joins you in old-ladydom*

[identity profile] penny-lane-42.livejournal.com 2009-10-17 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Ha! As someone who has to do a comparable amount of work to get my hair to be straight for an hour or two before it poofs back up again, I'm amused by your fascination with your hair this way. It looks cute on you! But take my word for it: oh, living with it....

Adorable toddler!pirate! Yay! Why do I not have pirate parties all the time?
deird1: Fred looking pretty and thoughful (Default)

[personal profile] deird1 2009-10-17 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Pirate parties are great! *has just discovered this*

My hair is seriously about as straight as hair could possibly be. (See, for instance, these photos.) This is SO WEIRD.

[identity profile] a2zmom.livejournal.com 2009-10-17 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Avast ye landlubbers!
deird1: Fred looking pretty and thoughful (Default)

[personal profile] deird1 2009-10-17 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
ARRR mateys! *offers you grog*
ext_30166: Sierra looking holy shit amazing (Default)

[identity profile] lavastar.livejournal.com 2009-10-17 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh. I have very very very very (very) straight hair, which used to bother me as a kid (straight hair's not INTERESTING, you see) until I learned how bitchy curly hair is and then I was cool with it.

Plus now I can have a Stereotypically Short Lesbian Haircut. Couldn't do that with curly hair.

Pirate party sounds fun!
deird1: Fred looking pretty and thoughful (Default)

[personal profile] deird1 2009-10-17 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I have very very very very (very) straight hair, which used to bother me as a kid (straight hair's not INTERESTING, you see) until I learned how bitchy curly hair is and then I was cool with it.

Ditto. But I still have yearnings for curliness.

[identity profile] taiba.livejournal.com 2009-10-17 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
AWESOME! Get a perm :-) You know you want to ;-)

Yay for pirates!
deird1: Fred looking pretty and thoughful (Default)

[personal profile] deird1 2009-10-17 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay!

ARRR!

[identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com 2009-10-17 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
What fun - and what an excellent pirate Caleb makes, too!
deird1: Fred looking pretty and thoughful (Default)

[personal profile] deird1 2009-10-17 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
It really was very fun...
deird1: Fred looking pretty and thoughful (Default)

[personal profile] deird1 2009-10-18 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
*waves sword*